What new technologies were developed that also had profound impact on trade and commerce?
What will be an ideal response?
A. New technologies' impact on trade and commerce
1. production and trade increased proportionately to the growth of the money
supply and absorbed its effects
2. mechanization generated new wealth and new employment opportunities
3. trade and capital were essential extra spokes in the cycle
a. linked food, population, and industry
b. provided incentives to mechanize and money to invest in
mechanization
4. linked unindustrialized regions in a grid of high-speed communications
5. railways made it possible for land-based systems of communications to carry
freight on a scale previously possible only by sea
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